How To Teach Kids To Handle Bully

We meet all sorts of people in our lives - good and bad. The same thing happens with children. As soon as they set their foot out from the protective environment of home, they start interacting with all sorts of other kids. Some of them might not be too nice and targeting other (sometimes younger or milder) children with teasing and bullying might be a part of their play.

It would hurt you if your child becomes a target of such an act. More so, it would be very insulting and demeaning for your child too to go through such an experience. Therefore it becomes a necessity to prevent any such situation from arising.

It might be difficult for you but you need to hear the full story. Find out who was involved and what all happened. You also need to know how your child reacted and resisted to the bully. This will make you find out what kind of reaction did not help in stopping that person and what is required.

Teach your child to be assertive by using the right voice tone. He should learn to overcome his fear and speak up. He can ask direct questions to the bully why is he doing something that's so wrong or why would he unnecessarily want to hurt somebody else's feelings by saying mean things.

Many a times agreeing with the other person also makes him give up as nothing remains to fight about. If the bully teases your kid about something like his weight, he can respond normally by agreeing to it - " you are right, I am overweight?but then what?" Questions like these will stop the teaser as he will understand that your child is not getting affected by it at all.

Give your child the confidence to not get intimidated at any cost. If there's no way out, tell him just to ignore the bully flat. Pretend that he's invisible or that your child is just not interested in what he's saying.

Once the message is sent across to the bully that here is a kid who does not get upset or affected in any way he gets teased, the bully is sure to leave the child alone and walk out for good!